The Principality of Trotterdam is a gargantuan, safe nation, renowned for its sprawling nuclear power plants, rampant corporate plagiarism, and ban on automobiles. The compassionate, cheerful population of 26.886 billion Trotterdammers enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

The medium-sized, liberal government is primarily concerned with Education, with Industry and Administration also on the agenda, while Spirituality receives no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Trotterdam. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Trotterdam economy, worth an astonishing 13,054 trillion bits a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 485,561 bits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The cruise missile launchers on the field hospital roof are purely deterrent in purpose, the government only invests in infrastructure after a natural disaster, Leader's told that love often manifests itself through homicidal four-lettered litanies, and the government is continually probing the galaxy in search of alien life. Crime is totally unknown. Trotterdam's national animal is the red panda, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Harmony.

Trotterdam is ranked 619^th in the world and 1^st in Pony Lands for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 21,313.44 on the Gilded Widget Scale.